Want to increase Project Success? Coach your Executive to be an effective Project Sponsor. Some years ago I was managing a global transformation project for a large bank. The entire project team was afraid of the project sponsor, a guy called Matthias. He occasionally participated in our regular...
The Four Phases of Project Management Whether you’re in charge of developing a website, designing a car, moving a department to a new facility, updating an information system, or just about any other project (large or small), you’ll go through the same four phases of project...
Project Management in Silicon Valley A while back, a group of us were trying to figure out what separates fast-rising Staff Engineers from Senior Engineers. We thought it counterintuitive that the answer wasn’t always tied to technical skills. Instead, all the Staff Engineers demonstrated crucial leadership through...
Understanding Fake Agile I was recently asked by a major corporation to give a talk on “fake agile.” They wanted me to explain what it is, how to identify it and how to deal with it. The request led me to give some thought to the...
Deming’s 14 Points W. Edwards Deming’s 14 points are the basis for transformation of industry. Adoption and action on the 14 points are a signal that the management intend to stay in business. aim to protect investors and jobs. Such a system formed the basis for...
Ten Steps to A Successful Project and Probability Success Indicatior (PSI) If you’re projects are behind schedule,over budget and not delivering the scope objectives,there is a better way to solve these challenges.We’ll help you develop leading edge techniques and best practices which you can use immediately...
In the Peoples And Teams section of the Professional Scrum Master course, we discuss the impact of Task Switching. We discuss that task switching destroys efficiency and quality. Using the work of Gerald Weinberg's book, Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking, the course shows that if someone...
I’ve consulted with more than 500 companies and organizations since I started my company, ETP (www.etpint.com) in 1992. I can’t think of one of them that doesn’t engage in multitasking i.e. where a pool of people is spread across and works on a series of projects...
In order to be effective in their roles, project managers must wear many hats and perform many different tasks as they guide a project toward its completion. Between ongoing communication with team members and key stakeholders, issue identification and resolution, budgeting, task management, team-building, and ensuring that projects...
Is Co-location still a Viable Tool in the Age of Virtual Teams? I remember, as if it was yesterday, my first large collocated project. The whole team felt like it was Christmas morning and that we had been handed some precious project. How else would you...